The World is Ready. Are You?

Midgard is lost in an age of war: of dark wilderness, and lost empires sunk beneath the waves.

Only magic and the warmth of hope keeps lights aglow when dread things prowl, and priestly wardings tremble and bend before the fury of demonic rage.

In this dark time, new heroes must arise to claim the crowns of Midgard, and restore the jewels to her scattered thrones...

The Midgard Campaign Setting brings to life a world of dark fantasy drawn from the great European traditions. Within this book you’ll find ley lines and deep magic; the Western Waste’s giant, shambling horrors and magic-blasted landscapes; diabolical gnomes and the schemes of immortal Baba Yaga.

You’ll sail the wind with wild elves and cut through the waves with swashbuckling minotaur corsairs. Midgard is a land of lethal assassins and exotic splendors as well as the empty, dragon-haunted crags of the icy Northlands.

The 298 pages of the Midgard Campaign Setting include:

• New Pathfinder RPG and AGE System rules for gearforged, kobold, and minotaur PCs• 26 new backgrounds, 3 new schools of magic and new specialties for AGE System• New clerical domains including Clockwork, Moon, Hunger and Beer• More than 50 kingdom write-ups, with new feats and traits for each region of Midgard• New spells, magical items, and incantations• New gear and weapons unique to the setting• The secrets of ley lines and shadow roads!

From the Northern fjords to the hidden tombs of the gnolls, from the raven-headed reavers to the ruins of the great mage-kingdoms: all of Midgard is yours!

"A wonderfully rich and beautiful sourcebook chronicling the world of Midgard. Think of how many game masters have fancied their campaign worlds awesome enough to publish in the book. So few actually have the writing and publishing chops to accomplish this, and to do so with such style is pretty much unheard of."

This current version has specific information for Pathfinder and AGE built in. You said that there will be a 5th Edition hardback. Will there be an Archmage (13th Age) edition, or at least, may it be included in the upcoming D&D 5E hardback, similar to how this edition supports both Pathfinder/AGE, out of the box?
I'd love more Archmage support from Kobold Press.

Chad KMarch 25, 2016 6:08 pm UTC

KOBOLD PRESS:

What happened to Southlands heroes and Midgard Heroes for 5th edition?? When will they be available for print purchase? Your store says "unavailable". Ive emailed you twice- weeks with no reply at all.
Whats planned for 5th edition??

Thank you.

Wolfgang BMarch 25, 2016 6:44 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Hi Chad! The Heroes books are still available, just not on DriveThru. Here's the Kobold Store versions (and they are also on Amazon and Tabletop Library):

Lots of plans for 5th Edition, including the Tome of Beasts, Book of Lairs, Unlikely Heroes, Midgard 5th Edition, etc. Some of that is discussed in the interview on KoboldPress.com with Wolfgang Baur, in the Kobold newsletter, on the Wizards D&D podcast, and also in the Tome Show podcast. That last one's here:

We pulled those from here for now, and they are still available at theKobold Press Store

http://koboldpress.com/kpstore/?s=5th+edition&post_type=product

and at Tabletop Library

http://bit.ly/1X6FjOO

Esper ROctober 12, 2015 1:45 am UTC

Is there a way to buy just certain chapters such as Ley Lines, Shadow Roads and the Clockwork domain stuff?

Wolfgang BOctober 13, 2015 6:26 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

That's a great idea! The Clockwork domain stuff is expanded in Deep Magic (which is a huge volume), but doing Ley Lines and Shadow Roads as a standalone.... Well, suggestion noted! Seems like something we could pull together.

Joseph MSeptember 23, 2015 4:40 pm UTC

How robust is the AGE support in this book?

Wolfgang BSeptember 23, 2015 5:04 pm UTC

PUBLISHER

Surprisingly good, though of course I'm biased. All the Midgard races get AGE backgrounds, and there's some AGE magic as well. So, minotaurs, gnolls, ravenfolk, etc are covered.

The foreword explains the origins of Midgard as Wolfgang Baur's own home game setting that he's been building since he was 14, and how it is amazing even to him to see the piles of scribbled notes and sketched maps that he ran games from turned into a [...]

I'm currently using this setting for my 13th Age campaign, and it's been a great fit for my group. It has a good balance between defining enough, so that I know, in a general way, what each portion of the world is "all about," but doesn't def [...]

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In a word: brilliant. This is without doubt or hyperbole the very best fantasy RPG campaign setting that I have ever read (and I've read many!). Wolfgang Bauer and his team have delivered a dark reflection of old world myth and legend an [...]

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